Administrators Academy
Thursday, March 25
Administrators Academy sessions allow superintendents, principals, and school leaders to share strategies for integrating and sustaining high-quality service-learning. Participants will examine ways service-learning can be used to improve academic achievement and civic, social, and career development and will leave with increased knowledge and skills on how to effectively develop policies that support quality service-learning practices.
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The Administrators Academy is free with full-conference registration and $79 for those not registered for the full conference. (If registering online for the full conference, please RSVP to the Administrators Academy by checking the box "I will be attending the Administrators Academy" under Special Events on your registration. To register online for the academy without registering for the rest of the conference, select "Administrators Academy Only" from the "Registration Type" menu. )
Indigenous Service Forum
The Indigenous Service Forum explores the contributions indigenous communities and educators have made to the field of service-learning. This year's forum features guest presenters and discussions of service from the perspectives of a number of indigenous cultures. Advance registration is not required.
The 2010 G. Bernard Gill Legacy Luncheon
Friday, March 26
This special event will take place on Friday, March 26 and include a keynote address by Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade, author of The Art of Critical Pedagogy: Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools and 2010 winner of the G. Bernard Gill Urban Service-Learning Leadership Award.
Jeffrey Michael Reies Duncan-Andrade, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Raza Studies and Education Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies at San Francisco State University. In addition to these duties, he continues as a high school teacher in East Oakland where for the past 18 years he has practiced and studied the use of critical pedagogy in urban schools. He currently teaches 9th grade English at Mandela High School in East Oakland. Before joining the faculty at SFSU, Duncan-Andrade taught English and coached in the Oakland public schools for 10 years, and completed his doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Duncan-Andrade has lectured around the world about the elements of effective teaching in schools serving poor and working class children. He works closely with teachers, school site leaders, and school district officials nationally, and as far abroad as Brazil and New Zealand, to help them develop classroom practices and school cultures that foster self-confidence, esteem, and academic success among all students. His research interests and publications span the areas of urban schooling and curriculum change, urban teacher development and retention, critical pedagogy, and cultural and ethnic studies.
For more information, please contact nslc@nylc.org
